A Guide to the Qur’anic Contradictions-10
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March 6, 2009
(A few readers wanted to know why I am repeating some contradictions. The answer is: I am not repeating; Allah is repeating many verses; I am just following what Allah had done in the Qur’an—Abul Kasem)
Sura 54: al Qamar (The Moon)
54:18 21
Allah tells the story of the Ad people; how Allah destroyed them in a day.
Contradiction: 41:16 says Allah destroyed the Ad people in several days.
Contradiction: 69:6 7 says Allah destroyed the Ad people in seven nights and eight days with a violent storm.
54:23 31
Allah narrates the history of the Thamud people. One (54:29) person killed the she camel of Salih. Three days after they killed the she camel, Allah destroyed them with a mighty blast.
Contradiction: 7:77, 26:157, 91:14 say several people killed the she camel.
Sura 56: al Waqia (The Inevitable Event)
56:7
Allah will sort out people in three classes.
Contradiction: 90:17 19 says Allah will sort out people in two distinct groups.
Sura 57: al Hadid (Iron)
57:22
Even before Allah created the heavens and the earth, He had predetermined the fate of everything.
Contradiction: 44:3 4 says every year, on the night of Laylatul Qadr, angels write down our fate, as decreed by Allah, for the coming year.
Sura 58: Mujadila (The Woman who Pleads)
58:22
If they resist Allah and Muhammad, then Muslims cannot take even their fathers, brothers, or sons as friends. These Muslims are the party of Allah; that is, Muslims cannot be friendly with the unbelievers even though they are their blood relations.
Contradiction: 17:23, 31:15 say respect parents even when they are unbelievers, and attempt to bring back the converts of Islam to idolatry.
Sura 60: al Mumtahan (The Woman to be Examined)
60:10
Test the believing women refugees; believing women are not lawful wives of the unbelievers; believing men are not lawful husbands of unbelieving women (i.e., Muslim, male cannot marry non Muslim women.)
Contradiction: 5:5 says Muslim men can marry women of the people of the Book, i.e., Christian and Jewish women.
60:13
Do not be friendly with the disbelievers; they are Allah’s enemies.
Contradiction: 5:82 says closest in friendship are Christians.
Sura 63: al Munafiqun (Hypocrites)
63:5
The hypocrites turn back even when Muhammad tells them he will seek Allah’s forgiveness for them.
Contradiction: 4:107 says Allah does not like disloyalty; He will not forgive the hypocrites.
Sura 65: at Talaq (Divorce)
65:4 5
For menopause women, the waiting time for divorce is three months, same for women who are yet to menstruate. A child girl who is yet to menstruate, her waiting period is three months, same as for a menopause woman; for the pregnant women, the waiting time is until she delivers the child.
Contradiction: 4:5 6 says orphan girls must reach marriageable age, which is taken as fifteen years, before they could be married.
Sura 66: at Tahrim (Prohibition)
66:8
If you repent then Allah will remove ills and will send you to Islamic Paradise under which rivers flow; the believers’ light will radiate in front of them and on to their right side.
Contradiction: 19:71 says every soul has to pass through Islamic Hell.
Sura 69: al Haqqa (The Sure Reality, Catastrophe)
69:6 7
Allah destroyed the Ad people with a furious wind, which lasted seven nights and eight days; they were left as headless bodies.
Contradiction: 41:16 says the furious wind lasted several days.
Contradiction: 54:19 says the furious wind lasted one day.
69:25 32
Those who receive the records on their left hands will regret their past actions; their wealth was of no use. They will be in hell; they will be seized, bound, and marched in a chain of seventy cubits (each cubit will be the forearm's length of an angel—ibn Kathir) long; then burnt in a blazing fire. (It will be entered into his buttocks and pulled out of his mouth. Then they will be arranged on this chain just like locusts are arranged on a stick that is being roasted—ibn Kathir. Insert the chain in his anus and extract it from his mouth—ibn Abbas.)
Contradiction: 84:10 says they will receive their records behind their backs.
69:35 37
For the unbelievers their only food in hell will be bitter ones: filth and pus.
Contradiction: 37:62 66 says unbelievers in Islamic hell will only eat fruits of Zaqqum trees.
Contradiction: 88:6 says they will eat only bitter Dari.
Sura 70: al Maarij (The Ways of Accent, the Ladders)
70:4
The angels and the spirits ascend to Allah in a day; one day equals fifty thousand human years in Allah’s reckoning.
Contradiction: 22:47, 32:5 say one day of Allah equals 1,000 human years.
Contradiction: 50:16 says Allah is closer than the jugular vein.
Sura 76: ad Dahr (Time) or Insan (Man)
76:21 22
The serving boys (Ghilmans) will wear green garments of fine silk and heavy brocade, adorned with bracelets/ bangles of silver; Allah will give everyone to drink a pure holy wine (Sharaban Tahura); these will be the rewards for the dwellers of Islamic Paradise
Contradiction: 5:90 says wine is the handiwork of Satan.
Sura 78: an Nabaa (The Great News, the Tidings)
78:23
The unbelievers will remain in Islamic Hell for ages (Huqb is seventy or eighty years, and every day of it is like one thousand years according to your reckoning in this life—ibn Kathir.).
Contradiction: 2:167, 20:101, 32:14, 98:6 say the dwellers of Islamic Hell will stay there for eternity.
Sura 83: al Tatfif or Mutaffiffin (Dealing in Fraud, Unjust)
83:25
In Islamic Paradise, Allah will quench the thirst of its dwellers with pure, sealed (expensive), exclusive wine.
Contradiction: 5:90 says wine is Satan’s handiwork.
Sura 88: al Gashiya (The Overwhelming Event)
88:6
For the dwellers of Islamic Hell the only food will be a bitter, thorny, smelly plant, Dari.
Contradiction: 37:62 66 says the inmates of Islamic Hell will eat only the fruits of Zaqqum tree.
Contradiction: 69:36 says they will eat only pus and filth.
88:12
In Islamic Paradise, there is one bubbling spring.
Contradiction: 18:31 says multiple gardens with rivers flowing underneath.
Sura 90: al Balad (The City)
90:17 19
The believers are the companions of the right hand (paradise); the unbelievers are the companions of the left hand (hell), (two distinct groups of people).
Contradiction: 56:7 says three distinct groups.
Sura 91: al Shams (The Sun)
91:14
Allah obliterated the Thamud people for rejecting their prophet, and for hamstringing Allah’s she camel.
Contradiction: 54:29 says one person killed the she camel.
Sura 99: al Zilzal (The Convulsion, the Earthquake)
99:6 8
Allah will sort out people according to their deeds—good or evil deeds (two distinct groups of people—the people of paradise and the people of hell).
Contradiction: 56:7 says three distinct groups.
Sura 109: al Kafirun (those who disbelieve)
109:6
To you be your way (means disbelief—ibn Kathir), to me is mine (means Islam—ibn Kathir).
Contradiction: In 3:85 Allah says He only accepts Islam.
Contradiction: 9:5 says kill the non Muslims wherever they are found.
Conclusion:
It appears that Allah is not sure and confident of Himself. He often hesitates, stumbles and errs of what He wants Muslims to emulate and follow. Just like a human being, Allah is prone to inconsistencies, mistakes and blunders. This demonstrates that the Qur’an cannot be the words of Allah, the all knowing, perfect, and precise creator of all things in the heavens and on earth. We might wonder how the creator and the sustainer of all things in the Heavens and on earth could construct such a platitude and slovenly written document.
We cannot imagine what might happen to the universe if this demented, imbecile, imbroglio, hesitant, and imprudent Allah is to rule and run it according to His words and laws in the Qur’an.
How could this unsure, uncertain, and self-doubting Allah send the Qur’an to guide the mankind?
Interestingly, Many Islamists consider these contradictions as Allah’s miracles.
PS: A few Muslim readers have sent this link to refute any contradictions in the Qur’an. I shall recommend the readers to visit these sites. According to the narrator of this document there is not a single contradictory verse in the Qur’an:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsllge0QhQE&feature=channel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqU4suOQkQc&feature=channel
References:
Ibn Musa al-Yahsubi, Qadi ‘Iyad. Ash-Shifa. Tr. Aisha Abdarrahman Bewley. Medina Press, P.O. Box 5531, Inverness IV5 7YA, Scotland, UK, fifth print 2004.
Walker, Benjamin. 2004. Foundations of Islam. Rupa & Co. New Delhi. First published in Great Britain by Peter Owen Publishers, 1998.
Tafsir ibn Abbas and Jalalyn: http://www.altafsir.com/
The three translations of the Qur’an: http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/reference/reference.html
www.qtafsir.com
Maududi: http://www.tafheem.net/main.html
Ibn Kathir’s Tafsir (exegesis) of the Qur’an: www.qtafsir.com
THE END
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Abul Kasem writes from Sydney, Australia. Send your comments to nirribilli@gmail.com
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Now this is an excellent one
Now this is an excellent one Abu Kasem. Keep up good works like this.
Very informative. Thank you.
Very informative.
Thank you. If Allah destroyed the Ad people, what keeps him from destroying infidels today. It seems as if Allah is impotent, since he has Muslims doing his dirty work. If he is so powerful, why cant he do his own crap, rather than have men kill each other as men do, If Allah is so good, why allow it. Shia hate and kill Sunni and Sunni hate and kill Shia. Both hate NOI, Bahai, Admasi, etc.
It looks like allah was none other than muhammad.
Because Muhammad wanted to do bad, he claimed Jews corrupted the Bible, when the NT said one wife and one husband. God never approved of the many wives Jews had, and the OT or Mosaic Law was for Jews only, not Egypt, not Persia, etc. The Quran has been rewritten for Western consumption, then when the Muslims have control, they will revert back to the 7th century. PLEASE STOP ISLAMIC WARRIORS!
Abul Kasem, thank you for
Abul Kasem, thank you for introducing this topic. As I do no have the privilege of post here, I can only express my views through a link for those who may be interested on a similar topic. I have titled my article, "Qur'anic Ambiguities Analysed." O hope you find it complimentary.
http://knol.google.com/k/mbp-lee/quranic-ambiguities-analysed/1l23x9udot...
Surah:54.Al-Qamar. : 18. ‘Aad
Surah:54.Al-Qamar.
: 18. ‘Aad denied; and how [severe] were My punishment and warning.
: 19. Indeed, We sent upon them a screaming wind on a day of continuous misfortune,
: 20. Extracting the people as if they were trunks of palm trees uprooted.
Surah:41.Fussilat.
: 16. So We sent upon them a screaming wind during days of misfortune to make them taste the punishment of disgrace in the worldly life; but the punishment of the Hereafter is more disgracing, and they will not be helped.
Surah:69.Al-Haqqah.
: 6. And as for ‘Aad, they were destroyed by a screaming, violent wind
: 7. Which Allah imposed upon them for seven nights and eight days in succession, so you would see the people therein fallen as if they were hollow trunks of palm trees.
Its very clear that Allah sent a wind to the people of Ad. Nowhere it says in Surah 54 that it was for one day only. It was sent on a day of continuous misfortune.
And in Surah 41 Allah says the wind during days of misfortune, it means the wind was sent on a day, and it was for days.
And in Surah 69 Allah mentions the duration of the wind.
i.e. The wind was sent on a day, and it was for days, and it lasted for 8 days and 7 nights.
Hope this is clear for you, as for other contradictions, let me go one by one.
Surah 54:29. But they called
Surah 54:29. But they called their comrade and he took (a sword) and killed (her).
Here ''they'' refers to unbelievers. They called their comrade and he took a sword and killed her. If we mean ''they'' to be believers, why they call comrade to kill her.
''Contradiction: 7:77, 26:157, 91:14 say several people killed the she camel.''
What you are considering to be a contradiction with ''several people killed the camel'' is they are unbelievers.
Hope this one is also clear to you.
Surah 56: 7. And you (all)
Surah 56:
7. And you (all) will be in three kinds (i.e. separate groups).
8. So those on the Right Hand (i.e. those who will be given their Records in their right hands), Who will be those on the Right Hand? (As a respect for them, because they will enter Paradise).
9. And those on the Left Hand (i.e. those who will be given their Record in their left hands), Who will be those on the Left Hand? (As a disgrace for them, because they will enter Hell).
10. And those foremost [(in Islâmic Faith of Monotheism and in performing righteous deeds) in the life of this world on the very first call for to embrace Islâm,] will be foremost (in Paradise).
11. These will be those nearest to Allâh.
12. In the Gardens of delight (Paradise).
13. A multitude of those (foremost) will be from the first generations (who embraced Islâm).
14. And a few of those (foremost) will be from the later time (generations).
Surah 90:
17. Then he became one of those who believed, and recommended one another to perseverance and patience, and (also) recommended one another to pity and compassion.
18. They are those on the Right Hand (the dwellers of Paradise),
19. But those who disbelieved in Our Ayât (proofs, evidences, verses, lessons, signs, revelations, etc.), they are those on the Left Hand (the dwellers of Hell).
20. The Fire will be shut over them (i.e. they will be enveloped by the Fire without any opening or window or outlet.)
In Surah 56, Allah says we will be in three kinds (groups). On the Right hand side, Left hand side and Foremost.
And in Surah 90, Allah is saying mankind about giving charity, doing good deeds and becoming one of those on the Right hand , and those who disbelieved they will be on the left hand. It is not necessary to mention Foremost, as it was mentioned in detail in Surah 56, who are the foremost people.
Hope this answer satisfies you.
Dear Brother Imran, Perfect!
Dear Brother Imran,
Perfect! Thanks for the clarification. It is not that Muslims need to make any. It is simply because there are some liars who make false claims about the Quran and our Prophet. They simply mesmerize others who are hostile to us. These Islamic haters want to spread lies in their forum with the intention to fool the innocent non-muslims. Elle, poma, etc. You can see their fascination towards Abu Kasem’s claims. I advise them to research other people’s idea before vouching the truth in it. I am sure if they did they would simply have refrained from commenting on this pack of poorly researched and biased report on the Quranic text. As for Proud Christian I feel very sad for him for I see him continuing to beat the same drum despite knowing fully well that Abu Kasem’s claims are devoid of any legible content. I wonder if he has read my comment on article – Quran Contradiction-9. I remember him saying that he was sure about one such claims and had supposedly rechecked and found that Abu Kasem was indeed right. I have tried to dispel that false perception in him by refuting that particular claim. He has chosen to dismiss it saying that he did not need Quranic contradictions to disprove of our faith. I am sure he must be reading this comment and I request him to research these claims made by Abu Kasem again in this string before applauding him. If he has any questions in particular he is more than welcome to respond. I have noticed this particular tendency of Muslim-haters to avoid any debate whereby they feel that they have been proven wrong. They simply jump from one topic to another and continue with their baseless allegations. It is sad to see how hatred has blinded their objectivity. I request everyone to go back to the comments section of ‘contradictions in Quran-9’ and judge for yourself I appreciate your efforts
Regards
first contradiction is
first contradiction is incorrect translation. surah
[41:16] Consequently, we sent upon them violent wind, for a few miserable days. We thus afflicted them with humiliating retribution in this life, and the retribution of the Hereafter is more humiliating; they can never win.
Translation didnt specify no days. So where is the contradiction. It says violent wind was sent for a few miserable days.
second contradiction is
second contradiction is meaningless as well. cause the verse says
[54:29] But they persuaded their friend to kill (the camel), and he obliged.
read the verse properly. The people of AD said to the person to kill the camel. And surah 7:77 says
[7:77] Subsequently, they slaughtered the camel, rebelled against their Lord's command, and said, "O Saaleh, bring the doom you threaten us with, if you are really a messenger." Here Allah is saying The people of AD killed the camel. The people of AD are not saying we killed the camel.It like this fight of nonsense terrorism when one person from iraq is a suicide bomber but the americans saying whole of iraq contains muslim extremists. Allah is powerful my friend, no contradictions can be recognized in the quran.